Viktoriya Basina

Artist Statement: The underlying concepts found throughout my work are the ideas of compassion, humanity, and humanism. I explore the relationship between the individual and the collective, through confrontations found in society, origin, mythology, and metaphysics. I create work that provokes questions of sanctity, violence, and destruction that afflict our contemporary condition. While at first seeming whimsical and attractive, my work often alludes to warfare, militarism, consumption and misogyny. What is currently idolized and glorified actually leads to incessant violence and intolerance. My artwork explores people and culture obsessed with symbols of wealth, weapons, and entrenched gender roles.

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